GATE CRASHING AGAIN

Hi all,
Please slow down, stop at the sign, wait until the Gate Arm comes down; and then proceed slowly, do not drive through Gate Arm:

Dave Israel.




CRASH AND STOP = $30.00 FEE
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CRASH AND RUN = $80.00 FEE

Sex Offenders in the HOA

I removed the whole Do You Know post at request of first poster.
The topic was internet sexual pornographer in the village. If you wish to replace comments add onto the following:
A Sex Offender Has Moved Into Your HOA ... What Now? March 2009 From - http://www.hoaleader.com/public/242.cfm

“Start by knowing that laws governing sex offenders vary from state to state, and you must determine your own state's law before you make a single move. "Across the country, more and more supreme courts have been ruling that an association can and may limit who can be in the building," says Sima L. Kirsch, a principal at the Law Office of Sima L. Kirsch P.C. in Chicago, "and that there's no prohibition of the secondary dissemination of information about sex offenders." ….
… Florida allows associations to implement restrictions. "In Florida, unless there's a provision in the association's governing documents that deals with whether people who've been convicted of crimes can live there, the association has no power to keep those people out, whether it's a murderer who's been paroled or a sexual predator who's served his or her time," says Robert L. Tankel, principal at Robert L. Tankel P.A. in Dunedin, Fla. "To keep them out of the association, it has to be voted on by the members and in the governing documents. I strongly urge that associations consider a document amendment to deal with the issue.

"If it's not in your governing documents," adds Tankel, "work with legal counsel and local law enforcement to determine the best route of notification, if any. There's no standard protocol for what to do about sexual predators or offenders within a community association. It's not defamation to tell people that someone is a convicted criminal, but it may be beyond the association's jurisdiction.

Don't step over the line. Remember that many states specifically prohibit harassment of sex offenders.”

Question

Does the Rover car and its driver know how to use a defibrillator? So that he can help in a distress call having a heart attack. If they do not have a defibrillator in the car with them — why not? They would be a great lifesaver.

Are you aware?

When your Association approves any occupancy for any unit, the approved new resident completes an information sheet that is added to our UCO database. On that form is an emergency contact section that is then loaded into our database for use by the Village Security team.

Recently, a family member needed access to her parent’s unit to enable the discharge of said parent from a rehabilitation unit permitting her return home after recovering from a fall. Security was contacted and the decision was made by Security to allow this “emergency contact” into the village 5 days before the date access was necessary without any effort to confirm the circumstances, of which they had absolutely no knowledge. No effort whatsoever was made to seek authorization from the Association, assuring water would be turned-on, keys would be available, or even the facts of the required access.

The procedure under which Security operates is a standard operating procedure commonly known as “Post Orders”. In reading those procedures, I have not found any specific authorization where the 309 Associations have granted any power to approve occupancy, under any circumstances.

When this was brought to the attention of the Security committee, they felt they need to permit those “emergency contacts” to have access to enter the Village and look-in on residents they have been unable to reach, for whatever reason. I believe those arriving at the gate should be escorted into the village and when the resident is found to be ok and authorizes the guest entry, security’s job is completed. I do not believe they should usurp the Associations authority to permit someone to enter and occupy any unit unless they are unable to reach the Board of directors for such Authority. The Rover vehicle has a “Presidents” book that should provide the names of the Board and would permit the rover complete access to seek the mandated approval to permit unescorted guests, in emergency situations, into occupying a unit.

Since no effort was made to: verify the facts of the case or to contact the Board for approval, consider the alternative. Suppose this authorization was an emergency contact that was abusing this action and now both the Association and Security could be liable for enabling potential criminal behavior or requiring the Association to expel this unauthorized guest.

How would you respond to this matter??

Ed Black

POTS, CELLULAR, VoIP and Gate Security

"How does the thing work?
Electricity; the high priest of false security"*

* Sherlock Holmes and The Pearl of Death - 1944.
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Hi All,
Every year around the time when The Snowbirds return to Century Village, an issue arises in the Security Committee; of which I am a member.

"Why Can't I use my Cellphone to call in Guests thru the gate via the Automated Guest Entry System (AGES)"? Many of these folks have given up their Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) landline and use Cell phones exclusively.

The majority of the Committee thus far has always decided against allowing this, the reasoning being that "it is desireable that the Unit Owner be physically present in their unit when calling in a guest". Clearly, using a Cell Phone would allow the Unit Owner to call in from anywhere.

I have repeatedly suggested that the committee is fighting a Technology Wave of inexorable power, but to no avail.

This is easy to enforce, because there are dedicated number blocks which equate to Cellular Telephones and they are easy to look up. However, it should be noted that the Telephone Number Portablity Act pokes a bit of a hole in this patina of security because it allows you to Port a Landline number to a Cell Phone: REF:

http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2004dltr0006.html

The Technology Wave is about to expand exponentially:

a new technology is spreading called "Voice over Internet Protocol" (VoIP). This technology will poke a much bigger hole in our sense of Security here in CV. These calls consist of digitized voice routed over the INTERNET, and there are no dedicated number blocks uniquely associated with VoIP. In fact, when you subscribe to a VoIP service, you may use your existing Florida local Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) number, and it is not subject to being readily detected as a VoIP number, nor is any other VoIP number that you may be assigned.

So; if you subscribe to a VoIp service which is National in coverage, a Unit Owner with such a service could call in a guest via their VoIP service from anywhere in the country.

The AGES would not know the difference nor can UCO look up the VoIP number when the Unit Owner registers it for the Call in system; it will look like any other Landline Telephone Number.

Dave Israel

SOLVING THE BROKEN GATE ARM PROBLEM

Hi All,

Here is the solution to stop gate crashing and tailgating:

Click the following URL: http://www.ldi.com/

Dave

CV SECURITY

Belgian Malinois

Hi All,
The following is extracted from the CV Q & A. It is a very important issue to be carefully considered:
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Author: Denise Ankarberg (.accel.atl.earthlink.net)

Date: 04-01-08 14:33

Someone removed all four tires & rims from a vehicle in the parking lot across from us two night ago. The sheriff was there in the AM. How could such a thing happen in this gated community? Where is security? Certainly that must have taken at least 1/2 hour.

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A great deal of money is spent on CV Campus Security. I am on the Security Committee and was involved in the vetting process and re-negotiating of the Security contract. Significant effort was expended.

Having said that, and speaking from some experience from my working career of 30 years in the Intel. Community I will tell you that the CV Campus is a Very soft target for crime.

First of all, as is often the case, much of the matter comes down to money. How much are you willing to spend to harden the facility, how many fences, and how high are you willing to see built.

The gate control system has many holes in it. Any caregiver or contractor who has access to your Unit may call in their buddies to do their evil deeds.

I have repeatedly suggested that the call-in system be Passworded, so that only the authorized unit owner may call-in guests. This suggestion has been ignored.

I have repeatedly suggested that cameras be placed at key choke points in the Village. Cameras are key tools assisting in crime solving; also ignored.

Nothing stops any Association from mounting Cameras integrated with motion detector driven lighting to record crimes in progress around the clock. The Police will welcome your recordings gladly.

Before you start complaining about Big-Brother surveillance and excessive cost, ask yourself the question; what is Security worth to you.

At a minimum this Campus requires:

1) Unbroken fencing 8 feet high enhanced by very unfriendly Flora with big thorns around the entire Campus. The laws regarding Barbed-wire need to be rolled back.

2) Additional rovers both hired and COP all equipped with dash mounted Video recorders.

Selected rovers to be enhanced with a trained dog, The Belgian Malinois is the Professionals dog of choice they are by far the best Crime dog and bomb Sniffer.

A bomb sniffing dog should be used prior to all major Clubhouse events; Shows, Delegate Assembly meetings, town meetings...!

3) High resolution hardened cameras with IR capability at all key intersections to allow selective Record and surveillance of the entire Village

4) Upgrading the Call-in system to require a numerical Password to authorize guests.

In closing; we live in a post 9/11 era; the security game is fundamentally changed, we are at war and we are a prime soft target for any reprobate who wishes to try us.

In discussing these sorts of things with the Chair of the Security Committee he laughs me off and says; "Where is the Nuclear Power Plant"
To that I say; we have cargo on board more valuable than the Nuclear Power Plant that cargo is our Unit Owners one and all.

I know how to harden the Campus, do you want to pay for it???

Dave